#govern

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#debt #disease #fatal #first #first thing

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#congress #gravitation #hear #kept #law

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#big business #big government #business #fear #government

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#bodies #branches #direct #elections #exception

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#league #most #press #quo #status

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. ↗

— John Pilger

#called #country #extreme #government #labour

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#accept #found #government #i #knighthood

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#being #end #governed #inferiors #participate